AWS Health Innovation Podcast
Amazon Web Services showcases startups that are advancing healthcare & life science by leveraging cloud computing technology.
#100, Enabling Personalized Medicine with Virtual Biopsies, Rajarshi Banerjee from Perspectum
Perspectum enables non-invasive "virtual biopsies" that provide safer, more accessible disease monitoring for conditions like liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.
August 27, 2024
#99, Soothing Cries & Saving Lives with Innovative Baby Tech, Dr. Harvey Karp from Happiest Baby
Happiest Baby's SNOO Smart Sleeper is an FDA-approved cradle that tracks baby's sleep, sends alerts, and automatically soothes with womb-like motions.
August 20, 2024
#98, Advancing Adaptive Clinical Trials with Causal ML, with Raviv Pryluk from PhaseV
PhaseV is pioneering the use of reinforcement learning, causal ML, and adaptive trial design to optimize resource utilization and time efficiency in drug development.
August 13, 2024
#97, Preventing Adverse Drug Events at Scale, with Avishai Ben-Tovim from MDI Health
MDI Health has developed an innovative AI solution used by payers and value-based providers to optimize medication management, identify high-risk patients, and reduce overall healthcare expenditure.
August 6, 2024
#96, Unlocking Precision Health with Oculomics, with Carlos Ciller from Ikerian
Ikerian is pioneering the use of non-invasive retinal imaging and AI to identify biomarkers that can predict disease progression and treatment response.
July 30, 2024
#95, Boosting Pathologist Productivity with AI, with Joseph (Yossi) Mossel from Ibex AI
Ibex AI's Galen™ platform demonstrated outstanding outcomes in clinical studies and helps pathologists and providers reduce diagnostic errors, implement real-time quality control, reduce diagnosis time and boost productivity.
July 24, 2024
#94, Decoding Infant Cries to Enable Timely Interventions with Roberto Iannone from Zoundream
Zoundream's solution uses AI to analyze infant cries and sounds in real-time, pinpointing reasons such as hunger or tiredness with remarkable accuracy, and detecting early signs of conditions like autism.
July 17, 2024
#93, Harnessing Data to Scale Innovations, Part Five of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Featuring Mendel, Akrivia Health, Epistemix, Ovation, and Evidation Health, this episode explores how innovative companies are leveraging real-world data and AI to drive precision medicine, uncover new treatments, and improve population health outcomes.
July 8, 2024
AWS Health Innovation Podcast
The AWS Health Innovation Podcast is the first and only Amazon/AWS podcast featuring healthcare and life science startups and investors. We showcase innovative teams and people, providing a view into how they operate and drive progress. Our goal is to tell the stories behind health innovators, not just talk about technology. The intended audience are health innovators, investors and employees from healthcare & life sciences startups.
Host
Alex Merwin
Alex Merwin is an operations executive with over ten years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams at startups and global tech companies. He is passionate about helping healthcare innovators apply digital technologies to make their solutions more customer-centric, cost-efficient, and effective. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, earning a Bachelors in Marketing with an International Business Certificate. He also attended executive development courses at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He works at Amazon Web Services as Head of Growth for their Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups business.
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